Seer of ghosts & weaver of stories

(You are very much not forgotten)

I'd planned on writing tonight, but instead I've been sitting here talking to Laura. I had a neurotic fit of restlessness earlier today and cleaned the entire house, right down to rearranging both bookshelves. I found myself envisioning James coming home to Laura saying, Joon-like, "She...cleaned the house," and there I'd be, still up on a chair mopping the dust off the top of the bookshelf (only minus the flying-through-the-air part). And if you didn't understand that, go watch Benny & Joon. It's a great movie. It's one of the few I don't think will ever get old.

While cleaning the upstairs bookshelf, I took stock of all my print publications and put them in one place. It's strange, having the other half entirely online, yet I've never bothered to print them off in their web formats and put them in a binder. It's a weird sensation, not being able to touch or hold up a concrete book or anthology for every single piece. Wonderful, though - it means a handful less to fear losing track of! Links don't fall behind couches or get shoved to the very backs of desks. They stay neatly where you put them on your profile page or in your bookmarks folder! Until they expire, I suppose, but I don't want to think about any of these wonderful webzines dying out any time soon...

It's one of the first movies I remember seeing from start to finish. As is Pretty Woman. I'm not sure what this says about my mother's film preferences when I was about eight or nine, but it's amusing nonetheless.

* For a full list of publication credits in poetry and fiction, see my profile.

ABOUT

A.J. Odasso's poetry has appeared in an eclectic variety of publications, including Sybil's Garage, Mythic Delirium, Jabberwocky, Cabinet des Fées, Midnight Echo, Not One of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, Stone Telling, Farrago's Wainscot, Through the Gate, Liminality, inkscrawl, Battersea Review, Barking Sycamores, and New England Review of Books. Her début collection, Lost Books (Flipped Eye Publishing), was nominated for the 2010 London New Poetry Award and for the 2011 Forward Prize, and was also a finalist for the 2011 People's Book Prize. Her second collection with Flipped Eye, The Dishonesty of Dreams, was released in 2014. She holds degrees from Wellesley College (B.A. in English), University of York (M.A. in Medieval Studies), and Boston University (M.F.A. in Creative Writing). She has served in the Poetry Department at Strange Horizons since 2012.